New Optimization Techniques in Engineering
By: by Godfrey C. Onwubolu, B. V. Babu
Contributors: Babu, B. V.
Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing -- 141; Studies in fuzziness and soft computing -- 141.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9783642057670; 9783540399308
Subjects: Industrial engineering; Engineering; Physics; Mathematical optimization; Operations research
Description: Presently, general-purpose optimization techniques such as Simulated Annealing, and Genetic Algorithms, have become standard optimization techniques. Concerted research efforts have been made recently in order to invent novel optimization techniques for solving real life problems, which have the attributes of memory update and population-based search solutions. The book describes a variety of these novel optimization techniques which in most cases outperform the standard optimization techniques in many application areas. "New Optimization Techniques in Engineering" reports applications and results of the novel optimization techniques considering a multitude of practical problems in the different engineering disciplines - presenting both the background of the subject area and the techniques for solving the problems.
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Table of contents: title: Part I: New Optimization Techniques; title: Part II: Applications of New Optimization Techniques in Engineering; title: Part III: Extended Frontiers.